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Assistant master, Eton College, 1946-1949 (taught
classics). Rector of St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, 1949-1999. Also rural dean
of Finsbury and Holborn, 1954-1967. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA),
1961. Honorary Chaplain Royal Naval Division Association and North Russia Club,
Past Master the Art Workers Guild and Vice-President Middlesex County
Association and London Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers.Published: The sea chaplains : a history of the chaplains of the Royal
Navy (1978).

Commanding
Officer, HM ML 175 (motor launch)[offensive patrols, Yugoslav Coast and later
minesweeping from Ancona to Venice, and from Split and Zara to Pola and Trieste;
later to Malta; paid-off in Messina, Sicily]

Taylor enrolled at the Guggenheim College of
Aeronautical Engineering at New York University, but left to join the Naval
Reserves in 1925. He received his Naval pilot's license in 1927 and was assigned
to Fighting Squadron Five, Scouting Fleet. He resigned in 1928 when his squadron
was ordered to inactive status and he then joined the US Marine Corps Reserve,
where he was an aviator from 1928-1933. In 1933, he was again ordered to
inactive status. At this point Taylor left the Armed Services and became a pilot
for United Airlines and later owned a New York City based travel agency.

In June 1941, Taylor left the Eagle Squadron and
rejoined the United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1951 where he served on the
following vessels: Lexington, Yorktown, Wasp, Enterprise, Saratoga, and Ranger.
After the war, Taylor was, among other posts, the commanding officer of Project
Afirm and the commanding officer for the Night Attack and Training Unit,
Atlantic (NACTU). In 1951 Taylor resigned from the Navy Reserves and worked
first for Braniff Airlines in Panama, and then as a Vice President for
Scandinavian Airlines System.
Literature: An eagle with wings of gold :
the remarkable career of Bill Taylor. In: Air Power History, Vol. 48, 2001;
Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White,
Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).

Manager of the following pharmacy branches of Boots,
the Chemists: West Hendon, Greater London (1946-1948), Southampton Row, London
(1948-1954), Chelsea, London (1954-1959), Guildford, Surrey (1959-1971). Retired
03.04.1971.
Freeman of City of London (by Patrimony) and Clothworker,
06.02.1935.
* personnel records seem to suggest that appointment
to HM MMS 57 was intended, but cancelled, and replaced by appointment to HM MMS
181; the Navy List seems to suggest otherwise

Tedford,
Alfred Robert HetheringtonSon of Alfred and Mary Winifred Tedford, of
Belfast, Ireland.

special telegraphist at Gibraltar,
one of twelve "Y Stations" receiving coded signals morse signals from German
shore stations, surface ships and U-boats; signals sent to "X station"
(Bletchley) for decoding and pinpointing position of German forces

* For outstanding gallantry, fortitude and
resolution whilst in serving in HMS Salvia during the Battle of Crete. This
rating has continuously shown great devotion to duty, manning his guns
during all attacks and was one of the two ratings who volunteered to remain
and man the guns whilst the vessel was at the quay, permission having been
given by the Naval Officer in Charge, Suda Bay for the remainder of the crew
not necessary on board to go the shelters near the quay during machine
gunning and bombing attacks.
** For bravery, skill and coolness of judgement in completing a hazardous
reconnaissance of an enemy beach on the night of 9/10 June, 1945. This
officer was in charge of a canoe on a recent operation. He was responsible
for maintaining contact with the submarine in addition to obtaining
information and these duties be carried out efficiently under difficult
circumstances. Throughout the operation he displayed a high degree of
courage.

His daughter writes: "My father was at Pharmacy
School in Cardiff when war broke out. He served on board the Devonshire as I can
recall him saying it was a sister ship to HMS Belfast, and was with the
Devonshire in port at Ceylon. He also served during the D-day landings and I have a picture of
him on board a landing craft of some description."

* Special Branch officer who has qualified
for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore

Education: Mill Hill School (1925-1929).
Solicitor.

21.07.1942

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(04.)1945

HMS Vectis
(RN base, Seaview, Isle of Wight)

(07.1945)

HMS Vectis
(RN base, Seaview, Isle of Wight) *

08.09.1945

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07.03.1946

Legal Aid
Officer on the staff of Admiral Sir Clement Moody, Commander-in Chief, East
Indies Station Naval Headquarters in Colombo; he was under the command of
Commodore Daniel de Poss, Chief Staff Officer (Personnel) to Admiral Moody from
26 Oct 1945-12 Feb1946

Teacher at a secondary school in North London.
Principal Lecturer at the
London Nautical School training future seamen. Principal Lecturer in Geography
at the College of All Saints, a teacher training college which is part of London
University, and retired in 1961 as a Reader (one step down from Professorship).

Banker who joined the Hong Kong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation in England. He first worked in London and was then sent to
France (Lyons and Tours), then to Bombay, India (he was living in Bombay in
1933), then to Penang in Malaya, then Singapore, then to Shanghai, China and
finally finished as Chief Manager for Thailand (Bangkok). He retired at roughly
55 years of age and then lived in North Devon and Cornwall.

Citation from a Norwegian decoration reads:
“He served as Royal Navy Liaison Officer with the 30 Norwegian MTB Flotilla
from 12 October 1942 until 24 September 1943. During this period he
displayed a true sense of objectivity that was almost unique, in that he to
some extent went against the opinion of his own superior officers in favour
of the Norwegian point of view. He always did excellent work for Norway, and
with his good spirits always seemed to get things moving.”

Timms,Roderick James Weston
"Rod"Youngest of six children of Ernest Tom Timms,
a local chemist in Sandgate, and
Florence May Vincent.
Married (23.06.1945, St Paul's Church, Sandgate) Ldg. Wren Winifred Jean
Pilcher (22.10.1916 - 05.10.1983); one son, one daughter (twins).

22.03.1921Elham district, Kent
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04.07.2003Lewes, Sussex

Ord.Sig.

11.09.1941

Ord.Sea.

02.10.1941

Ldg.Sea. (Coxsw.)

20.02.1942

T/A/S.Lt.

23.03.1943

T/S.Lt.

26.09.1943

T/Lt.

29.04.1945 (reld
> 04.1946)

Lt.

15.12.1961,
seniority 18.09.1959

Lt. (Sp.Br.)

02.12.1966,
seniority 18.09.1959

Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)

18.09.1967 (retd
22.03.1983)

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19.06.1945

action E-boats Nore
07.04.45

RD

07.03.1972

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RD

27.09.1983

1st clasp

Worked as junior draughtsman for the Folkestone
Electricity Supply Company, meanwhile serving in the Home Guard.

Emigrated to South Africa, 1946. Director of companies, retiring 1981, after
which he acted as consultant. Honorary Consul for Sweden in Natal, 1962-1970
(Knight of the Order of Vasa, Sweden). Associate, Institution of South African
Shipbrokers.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tommey
*,
John Mervyn
Son of Alfred Davies Tummey (1898-1974), and Hannah Dunn (1901-1959).
Married ((09?).1950, Ross district, Herefordshire) Pamella M. Martin; two sons,
one daughter.
* The family changed last name from Tummey to Tommey, c. 1945.

Towey,
John William
Son (with one sister and two brothers) of John William Towey (1881-1942), and
Charlotte Collins (1882-1963).
Married (16.08.1941, Raynes Park Parish Church, Surrey) Daisy Foley Freathy
(15.06.1915 - 07.1987), daughter (with four brothers and one half-sister) of
George Freathy (1884-1957), and Elizabeth Dow Reilly (1894-1969); one son.

Trained as a cabinet maker, working at aircraft
factories in Wembley, and then Hamble (Follands), as a jig maker. Served Cunard
Line as a junior engineering officer for about 2 years (RMS Aquitania, and RMS
Franconia on her world cruise in early 1939).

Went into business and built up a chain of about 20
furniture stores across central southern England between 1946 and 1968, when he
sold that business and semi-retired. He retained a small finance company that he
had set up in the 1950's, which he oversaw until his son took it over in 1984,
and he also owned the majority of a property development company in Australia.
* His "flimsy" suggests date of appointment as being 10.05.1939.
Should be 1940, though.

killed when
his plane caught fire and crashed near Oakhampton in Devon[returning from RNAS St Merryn (HMS Vulture) to RNAS Yeovilton (HMS
Heron), the Naval Air Fighter School, he was flying a Fairey Fulmar II, serial number X8812 (coded 6F from its time on board HMS
Victorious); in low visibility, the plane crashed into high ground on Dartmoor and burnt out a quarter of a mile west of Okehampton at Yelland
Farm, Tanner Hill, Holdsworth Road]

Docks manager and port consultant.
Director & General Manager
of the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company,
1955-1972, then head of the consultancy side of the company, and he travelled
worldwide, advising on the improvement of port facilities, 1972-1987.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Was articled to Vivian Palmer Haughton of
Wellington, New Zealand from 1926 to 1929. He studied at the Architectural
Association in London from 1930 to 1932, passing the final exam in July of the
latter year. Two months later he joined the office of George Grey Wornum. He was
admitted ARIBA on 3 December 1934, his proposers being Wornum, John Ninian
Comper and Howard R Lenton (though the latter two are uncertain as their names
are not easily legible). His nomination papers state that he had travelled in
Holland and France in 1930, and in Holland, Germany, Austria and Italy in 1931.
Studied at AA. Tripe was presumably a founding partner of the London practice of
Tripe & Wakeham.

HMS Tower
(auxiliary patrol base, PLA Building, Trinity Square, London EC3)[His widow said that he was on “Thames
defence” and he seems to have been based on the old Thames Nautical Training
College which the Royal Navy requisitioned for World War 2. Then it consisted of
HMS Worcester (an obsolete wooden warship) and the Cutty Sark.]